2008-11-21
Violence Hits Refugee Camp
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today expressed its mounting concern for the safety of nearly 70,000 displaced people taking shelter in camps, where shootings and lootings have been reported, outside a provincial capital in the war-wracked eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).2008-11-21
Healthcare Crisis As Cholera, Malnutrition Rise
Many of the displaced in the eastern province of North Kivu urgently need healthcare amid an increase in the number of cholera, gunshot injury and malnutrition cases being reported, according to aid agencies. 2008-11-21
Refugees Seek Better Life in Uganda
Jean-Claude Molumba has not worked in more a month. He is a primary school teacher but it is not safe for him - or his students - to assemble for classes. Just last week, when he realised that more than 300 people in his small village had died, he decided to leave DRC and cross the border to Uganda. 2008-11-21
South Kivu - Humanitarian Agencies Mobilise to Assist Displaced People At Minova
Due to the armed conflict in North Kivu province between the Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) and rebels of the National Congress for the Defence of People (CNDP), some 6,000 people have found shelter in the town of Minova in Kalehe territory some 150 kilometres north of Bukavu, capital of the neighbouring South Kivu province. 2008-11-21
30,000 Missionaries Ask Europe to Send in Army
A network of 30,000 Catholic missionaries working in Europe and Africa want the European Union to deploy a military force to the Congo to keep open a humanitarian corridor because the UN force (MONUC) has failed to do so. 2008-11-21
Grass-Roots UN Project Aids Unemployed Mothers With Hungry Children
A little-known but highly effective low-budget United Nations initiative that brings grass-roots aid to thousands of people in small communities around the world is now providing work and food for mothers with badly nourished children in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 2008-11-21
'There is No One and No Tribe That is Safe'
Jacquelyn Ingenda Himana is one of 12,000 Congolese refugees who thought her chances for survival might be better in Uganda than in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting among rebel factions and the army has displaced more than 250,000 people. 2008-11-21
Ceasefire Holds Despite Some Clashes
The security situation in the east is calm overall. The ceasefire is holding, with the exception of some deplorable incidents in North Kivu. In Goma, the reinforcement of MONUC troops continues, with daily day and night patrols carried out in collaboration with the DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) and the Congolese National Police (PNC) to ensure the security of the population and the city. 2008-11-21
Beni - Refresher Course for Criminal Investigation Officers 'OPJ'
MONUC facilities in Beni and Butembo hosted a meeting, on 21 novembre 2008, between thirty OPJ's and the Public Prosecutor, Tupa Kamango. The meeting was attended by the Chief of MONUC's Human Rights Office in Beni and his colleague of MONUC's Police Unit in the same town. 2008-11-21
Breaking Up the DR Congo is the Only Solution to the Insanity There
Yet another session of hand-wringing talks about conflicts in the Congo has taken place. This was the one day regional summit in Nairobi last Friday, whose so-called purpose was to address the current fighting in the DR Congo. 2008-11-21
Will More Peacekeepers Help?
The 15-member Security Council decided Thursday to bolster the 17,000-strong U.N. Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) with an additional 3,000 troops, strengthening further its claim as the largest single peacekeeping force deployed by the United Nations. 2008-11-20
UN Sends More Peacekeepers to East
The Security Council today authorized a temporary increase of more than 3,000 blue helmets serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to deal with the violence in the country's east, which has displaced an estimated 250,000 civilians in recent months. 2008-11-20
General Babacar Gaye - Monuc Through Its Mandate Continues to Assist the Fardc
The security situation is calm overall today. The CNDP, in accordance with its declaration of yesterday, started withdrawals on the Kanyabanyonga-Nyanzale and Kabasha-Kiwanja axes. 2008-11-20
History Beckons Obasanjo in DRC
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo should take advantage of his recent appointment as a Special Envoy to the crisis-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to re-launch himself as one of Africa's Statesmen leading the pack in the resolution of the various ethnic and political crises and conflicts plaguing Africa. 2008-11-19
What is the Future for Peacekeeping Force?
Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria and newly-appointed U.N. envoy in the Great Lakes Region, has visited both Congolese president Joseph Kabila and CNDP rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda, attempting to chisel the outlines of a new peace in the region. 2008-11-19
Aid Workers Fear New Wave of Sexual Violence
Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed "the worst place in the world to be a woman" by aid workers. 2008-11-21
Seeking to Stabilize Situation in Democratic Republic of Congo, Security Council Reinforces United Nations Troop Strength By Nearly 3,000, Until Year's End
The Security Council this morning authorized a temporary increase of the military strength of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) of up to 2,785 military personnel, and the strength of its formed police unit of up to 300 personnel. 2008-11-21
British Minister Refutes DRC Links
The British Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations, Lord Malloch-Brown, has refuted allegations that Rwanda is supporting DR Congo rebel movement, the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP). 2008-11-21
Congo - Group Lauds UN Over Obasanjo
A group, African Network for Peace, Progress and Development (ANPPD), has commended the recent effort of the United Nations (UN) in appointing former president Olusegun Obasanjo to head the new peace initiative as special envoy to Congo. 2008-11-21
Footprints And Paradoxes of Canadian Mining
Mikhael Missakabo reveals the extent to which Canadian mining companies are benefiting from instability and weak institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo to reap huge profits while paying little attention to the ecological and human cost of their actions. These companies have become adept at hedging their bets in the ongoing conflict and negotiating contracts that literally impoverish the host country. All that remains in their wake is environmental and economic and social ruin. |
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